Public Services Manual: Library Spaces

Lost Valuables Form is in its own binder on the book truck at the circulation desk. It must be filled in and witnessed by another staff member. If the owner of the valuable can be identified, ask the circulation person on duty to look them up in the system. Staff generally phone or email the person and then place the valuable in the locked cupboard in the staff workroom.

USB Keys -  Staff look to see if there is a resume or some document that identifies the owner and then look them up and send them an email. Staff then label the USB key and put it in a small box for USB keys that is in the Lost & Found drawer beside the reference desk.

Everything else (textbooks, keys, calculators, notebooks, water bottles etc.) goes in the Lost & Found drawer beside the reference desk. If a water bottle has water in it, please empty it out before putting it in the drawer.  

Steacie

Lost & Found items are at the circulation desk.

• Large items are stored in a box near the entrance. 
• Smaller items are located in the top long drawer at the desk.
• The reference desk may keep found items in a drawer until the end of the day/shift, at which time items are given to the circulation desk.

​Use discretion to verify the patron’s identity before releasing valuable items.

If identifying information is available on the found items and/or the owner is listed in the YU directory, staff may contact the patron to alert him/her that the item was found.

If patrons can provide their last location at the library, staff may offer to check for the item if time permits.

1st Floor: Gender neutral, Accessible

2nd Floor: Women's, Gender neutral

Basement: Men's

Washrooms are located on the 2nd floor behind and to the right side of Learning Commons. Also on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors. Turn left when you exit the escalators, washrooms are on the left side.

Wheelchair accessible washrooms are also there beside the washrooms and available on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors

Public washrooms are outside Steacie.

Closest public washrooms:

• Exit library, turn left, walk towards the building's Campus Walk entrance
• Turn down the hall to the left of the main building doors

Gender neutral accessible washroom (hallway near Steacie building's north entrance)

• Exit library, turn right, walk towards building entrance near athletics track
• Washroom is last door to the left in hall behind the door just inside interior building double doors

Other public washrooms:

• Basement by each building entrance
• Lassonde building (behind the ground floor lecture hall entrance)

Locked washrooms (keys in key cabinet):

• Female staff washroom (beside accessible public washroom) - most full time female staff have a key
• Disabled patron & staff washroom (library basement).